• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      10 months ago

      Yeah exactly. Normal inheritance means their kids or spouse inherit, and the number of billionaires remains the same.

      • Don Escobar@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Fun fact, if I were to inherit the wealth of a billionaire family member who was shot in public I’d get philanthropic real fast!

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          10 months ago

          Many people say this. However of those who talk the talk, barely any ever walk the walk.

          However I think if you are born an heir to a billionaire, you’d lack the perspective which might foster selfless philanthropy.

          I’d like to think that if someone from the working class would randomly get such money they would. But it still seems unlikely.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    My OCD wonders if they factored in having to assassinate the heirs of the CEOs who immediately become billionaires, recursively until every fortune has been divvied up so many ways nobody has a billion anymore. Cuz that would be necessary if you really want to “run out” of billionaires, and would also mean you advocate executing children for inheriting a lot of money. This does require thinking beyond the simple meme, but go ahead - you can do it!

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Starting a psyop on 4chan for making edgy school shooter wannabes start aiming at billionaires instead.

    “You see anon, it’s not that girls don’t like you or that your class has 1 non-white person in cornbread America, it’s that billionaires are leeches in society, and the cops they own would stop you. Don’t fire at classmates, fire at the upper class.”

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      10 months ago

      I tried to teach socialism for terminally 4chan people, it’s hard, and can be immediately undone by /pol/, some other nazi shit, etc.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        I did it once, in person, and all it took was food every day for a few months. We all shared our food at lunch instead of keeping it to ourselves, and we all went away more full than we had before. (the reason is that we all got a larger variety of flavors than before, but that’s not the point. The point is communism) Never out had to talk about leftism or politics either, people just sort of came around via eating.

  • confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    There are 1050 estimated billionaires in the US. In 2024 we’ve had 38 school shooting related deaths.

    So a bit more than 2 months…